“My gosh..the mixed messages these kids get.”
Nothing mixed about it, if you went to the company party as an executive, and did stuff like he was pictured doing,(eg. kissing the company logo, or demeaning the CEO’s statue), see how quickly you would last. Nope, tough lessons to learn,but life is tough.
He will be a better person for it.
....Bob
Yes he will and kudos to the USOC for their quick action.
These athletes represent their country and should be held accountable for their actions.
Nothing mixed about it, if you went to the company party as an executive...He's NOT a company executive at a corporate event representing some product - he's a 22 year old snowboarder doing what 22 year old snowboarders do. He got to the Olympics because he's obviously good at snowboarding, not because he signed up to be the poster child for Focus on the Family.
Furthermore, by all subsequent accounts it sounds as if Lago is a good kid - not the mindless thug some here prejudged him as being. He's a self-made athlete from a small town in New Hampshire, well liked in his community, and probably even a conservative. The local paper interviewed him when he got home from the Olympics after being booted from the village. You know what he did first? He called up his hunting buddies and made a trip to the gun range.
Furthermore, the pictures weren't that bad to begin with, and they don't even hold a candle to what routinely happens at colleges across America whenever somebody or some team in his age group wins something. The whole story is fabricated outrage by a drive-by scandal-mongering media. And it's not even a very good one.
It's typical msm bs. Trash Lago for being a normal kid and partying, then celebrate the freak who's running around in a pink fur-adorned tutu for his "courage" and "diversity."